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Technology.ie has got twenty tickets to give away to DomainFest Bulgaria next week. It’s just one of the events which form part of Bulgarian Internet Week, in a country which ranks second in the world for Internet use (average: 16 hours per person per week). DomainFest Bulgaria is brought to you by the people behind NamesCon– the […]

Those boffins at Blacknight HQ are at it again! When not tweaking servers or flogging domain names they’ve been known to gaze in wonder at the stars and, with a spectacular astronomical event in the form of a partial solar eclipse scheduled for Friday morning, they’ve decided to stream live video of the event at blacknight.solar. […]

Starting today at 3pm you can register a domain name in the brand new .Science domain, and to celebrate, Blacknight is offering .science domain names for the ridiculous price of €2.55! Why .Science? Well as the new registry’s CMO Andy Churley explains, we’re nearly all scientists, when you think about it! [youtube]http://youtu.be/3CbUzSLZLBI[/youtube] There are lots […]

Jothan Frakes joins Blacknight’s Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin on today’s podcast to talk about NamesCon, the domain names conference in Las Vegas from January 11 to 14. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 36:39; 22MB; MP3. A veteran of the domains industry, Jothan is co-organiser of Namescon, now in […]

Today is World Aids Day, and one way to show solidarity and offer practical support for Aids victims is with a dot HIV domain name. Blacknight is currently offering a discount on dotHIV domain names. Some months ago we did a podcast with Carolin Silbernagl of dot HIV who explained that, since effective treatments have been developed for HIV, Aids has […]

I’m at Web Summit for the next three days reporting for Technology.ie, and the Blacknight team are here too. You can talk to Gianni about domains and hosting, dedicated servers and colocation in our state-of-the-art datacentre. Or you can talk to me about your story: your startup, your business, your idea. We’re shooting video interviews over the […]

Over on the Blacknight blog, Michele Neylon has smoke coming out of his ears. Here’s a picture: He’s upset because he wants to sell the shiny new generic top level domains (gTLDs) that are coming on stream, but ICANN won’t let him, or any other EU domain registrar. Before you can sell new gTLDs, says […]

Michele and Conn get together at Blacknight HQ for a podcast (32:18; 19MB, MP3) as the final preparations are put in place for the launch of the new datacentre next Monday! We talk about Naoki Hiroshima and the hackers who stole his $50,000 twitter name. Congratulations to Stripe and to Intercom on their recent investments […]

Easyjet does away with checkins This is very cool if you’re a Mac fan (but eye bleedingly expensive .. ). Twitter warns journos about security and open up their advertising platform. Ultra secure messaging – wipe the messages on both ends – they’ve even got a hacker challenge! The Ennis Innovate incubator programme invites applications from startups. MicksGarage.com […]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 55 for January 11th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Newspaper link debacle update. Plus – the backlash against twitterphobia! Blacknight launches WhoOwns.it. Google might escape the FTC but EU’s gunning for them now. (Flashback to Google ubiquity in 2006). EU is also concerned about how companies are […]